Fulfilling Prophecy Quotes by Jeannette Walls

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love…

— Jeannette Walls

“You should never hate anyone, not even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You had to find the redeeming quality and…

— Jeannette Walls

With a complicated childhood, you can either focus on the positive or the negative, and I chose to focus on the positive.

— Jeannette Walls

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people.

— Jeannette Walls

“If you want to live in the farmland, haul your sorry hide off to Pennsylvania.”

— Jeannette Walls

“I WAS SITTING IN a taxi, wondering if I had overdressed for the evening, when I looked out the window and saw Mom rooting…

— Jeannette Walls

I had the big shoulders; I had the big hair. I loved the '80s. It was all about power women.

— Jeannette Walls

Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

— Jeannette Walls

“That was the way man was meant to live, he’d say, in harmony with the wild, like the Indians, not this lords-of-the-earth crap, trying…

— Jeannette Walls

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

— Jeannette Walls

“Don’t be afraid of your dark places,” Mom told her. “If you can shine a light on them, you’ll find treasure there.”

— Jeannette Walls

I hate Erma," I told Mom... "You have to show compassion for her..." She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst…

— Jeannette Walls

“Sad state to spend your life in. Being afraid of your own self." Rex Walls”

— Jeannette Walls

I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.

— Jeannette Walls

“the surest way to feel rich was to invest in quality nonessentials.”

— Jeannette Walls